XiphOrg

Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit organization that produces free multimedia formats and software tools.

 Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit organization that produces free multimedia formats and software tools. It focuses on the Ogg family of formats, and the most successful one has been Vorbis, an open and freely licensed audio format and codec designed to compete with the patented MP3 and AAC. As of 2013, the company’s development work is focused on Daala, an open and patent-free video format and codec designed to compete with the patented High Efficiency Video Coding and VP9. In addition to its in-house development work, the company has also brought several already-existing, but complementary free software projects under its aegis, most of which have a separate, active group of developers. These include Speex, an audio codec designed for speech, and FLAC, a lossless audio codec. In 2008, the Free Software Foundation listed the Xiph.Org projects as High Priority Free Software Projects.   Xiph.Org Foundation was launched by Chris Montgomery in 1994.